sign in sign up
<<
Home , Abdul Salis, Battersea Arts Centre, Bush Theatre, Cyril Nri, Exile (Casualty), Garrick Theatre

Barber Shop Chronicles

A Fuel, National , and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production

WHEN: VENUE: THURSDAY, NOV 8, 7∶30 PM ROBLE STUDIO THEATER FRIDAY, NOV 9, 7∶30 PM SATURDAY, NOV 10, 2∶30 & 7∶30 PM

Photo by Dean Chalkley Program

Barber Shop Chronicles A Fuel, National Theatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production

Writer Design Associate Director Bijan Sheibani Catherine Morgan Designer Rae Smith Re-lighter and Production Electrician Lighting Designer Jack Knowles Rachel Bowen Aline David Lighting Associate Sound Designer Gareth Fry Laura Howells Music Director Michael Henry Sound Associate Fight Director Kev McCurdy Laura Hammond Associate Director Stella Odunlami Wardrobe Supervisor Associate Director Leian John-Baptiste Louise Marchand-Paris Assistant Choreographer Kwami Odoom

Barber Consultant Peter Atakpo Voice Work Charmian Hoare Pre-Production Manager Dialect Coach Hazel Holder Richard Eustace Tour Casting Director Lotte Hines Production Manager Sarah Cowan Wallace / Timothy / Mohammed / Tinashe Tuwaine Barrett Company Stage Manager Tanaka / Fifi Mohammed Mansaray Julia Reid Musa / Andile / Mensah Maynard Eziashi Deputy Stage Manager Ethan Alhaji Fofana Fiona Bardsley Samuel Elliot Edusah Assistant Stage Manager Winston / Shoni Solomon Israel Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng Tokunbo / Paul / Simphiwe Patrice Naiambana Costume Supervisor Emmanuel Anthony Ofoegbu Lydia Crimp Kwame / Fabrice / Brian Kenneth Omole Costume and Buying Supervisor Olawale / Wole / Kwabena / Simon Ekow Quartey Jessica Dixon Elnathan / Benjamin / Dwain Jo Servi Abram / Ohene / Sizwe David Webber

Co-commissioned by Fuel and the National Theatre. Development funded by Arts Council with the support of Fuel, National Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Binks Trust, ZA, Òran Mór and A Play, a Pie and a Pint.

Inua Ellams’ 2018–19 residency is supported by the Stanford Presidential Residencies on the Future of the Arts.

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you.

2 About the Artists

Tuwaine Barrett Wallace / Timothy / Mohammed / Tinashe Tuwaine trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Credits at Mountview include: ; ; A Lie of the Mind; ; ; and If You Don’t Let us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep. His work in theater includes: Blue Orange (

Theatre); and; Photo by Marc Brenner A Season in the Congo (). TV includes: Rellik; A Discovery Of Witches; and Silent Witness. Film includes: Drop. Alhaji Fofana Quick Cuts. Radio includes: Three Strong Ethan Women (BBC). Elliot Edusah Alhaji won the 2017 Children’s BAFTA Samuel Award for Best Performance for his Mohammed Mansaray This is Elliot’s first professional role role of Ryan in Screwball. His television Tanaka / Fifi after completing his training at credits includes Silent Witness (BBC), Mohammed’s theater credits include LAMDA in 2018. Theatre credits at City (BBC), Josh (BBC3), Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest LAMDA include Taming of the Shrew; Brotherhood (Big Talk/Comedy Central), ( Crucible), lead roles in Mrs. Suckerpunch; All’s Well That Ends Well Siblings (BBC 3) and a series regular in Dalloway, Jekyll & Hyde, and Othello for and . Prior to this, Elliot’s Youngers, series 2 (Big Talk/E4). the ’s Rep West theatre credits include End Season. He also has musical (The Brit School); and Heartfelt (Theatre Solomon Israel theater experience having partaken in Royal Stratford East). Winston / Shoni Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and Solomon trained at LAMDA. Theater Daddy Cool (, Maynard Eziashi credits include: The Fantastic of World Tour). His television credits Musa / Andile / Mensah Mrs Rich; Duchess of Malfi; Miss include: Tracey Beaker Returns (CBBC), Maynard Eziashi’s work in theater Littlewood; Kingdom Come; Twelfth ; Law & Order UK and (ITV). Film includes: The Winter’s Tale; Pericles; and ; and credits include: My Brother the Devil Season of Migration to the North (Royal (Royal Shakespeare Company); The (Rock Rest Entertainment). Shakespeare Company); Free Fall Pulverised (Arcola/York Theatre Royal); (Pleasance); Faith v Reason (Bush); A Dutchman (Young Vic); Octagon Patrice Naiambana Jamaican Airman Forsees his Death (Arcola); Know All the Secrets in My Tokunbo / Paul / Simphiwe (Royal Court); and A Respectable World (Tiata Fahodzi); Chigger Foot Boys Theater: The Man Who Committed Wedding (Almeida). TV includes: Bad (); Juicy and Delicious Thought (Fringe First Award Winner); Boys; The Changeling; and Hallelujah (Nuffield Southampton); Rosamunde Hutt’s New Nigerians Anyhow. Film includes: The Contract; (Old Laundry Theatre). TV credits (Arcola); The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang); and Ace Ventura: include: Lovesick; ; I Live Wives (Femi Elufowoju Jnr Ensemble); When Nature Calls. With Models; Josh; Brothers with No (); Iyalode Game; Law and Order; ; and of Eti, Duchess of Malfi (Utopia Theatre);

3 Othello; The Histories Cycle; The Spanish Ekow Quartey David Webber Tragedy; Cymbeline; The Lion The Witch Olawale / Wole / Kwabena / Simon Abram / Ohene / Sizwe and The Wardrobe (Royal Shakespeare Theater credits include: David trained at Rose Bruford. His Company); Pericles (Shakespeare’s (National Theatre); People, Places & theatert work includes: Death and the Globe); ’s Coriolanus Things (National King’s Horseman and Leave Taking (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Marcello Theatre/Headlong/Exeter Northcott); (National Theatre); The Hudsucker Proxy Magni’s Tell Them That I’m Young and (National Theatre); A (Nuffield Southampton and Beautiful; Ragamuffin (Double Edge Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Playhouse); Catch-22 (Northern Stage); Theatre).TV: The Bible; Torchwood; Silent Royal Bath); As You Like It (National Sweet Bird of Youth (Old Vic); Witness; ; In . Film: Turn up Theatre); Richard II (Shakespeare’s Government Inspector (Young Vic); Charlie; Spectre; Monochrome; Globe); The Absence of War What’s in the Cat for Contact (Royal Schweitzer. Founder of Tribal Soul Arts (Headlong/UK Tour); Court); One Love (Bristol Old Vic and (Headlong/West Yorkshire Talawa); and The Big Life (Apollo, West Anthony Ofoegbu Playhouse/UK Tour); Long Story Short End). TV includes: Chewing Gum; Prime Emmanuel (Pleasance Theatre); and Eye Of a Suspect; Youngers; Nan; The Royal Anthony’s theater credits include: Circle Needle ( Playhouse). Film/TV Bodyguard; How Not to Live Your Life; Mirror Transformation (HOME, credits include: Call the Midwife (BBC); and Being Human. Film includes: Manchester); ; Julius Enterprice (BBC3); Undercliffe; Zapped; Captain Phillips; The Children Act; Broken; Caesar; Antony & Cleopatra (The Royal Porters; The Current War; and Titus Tipping the Velvet; 51st State; Among Shakespeare Company Rome Season, Andronicus with for Giants; The Avengers; and Getting Hurt. 2017-2018); ( Shakespeare’s Globe. Ekow was Playhouse); Death and the King’s nominated for the prestigious 2015 Ian Inua Ellams Horseman (); Charleson Award. Writer Twelfth Night (Royal Theatre, Born in , Inua Ellams is a cross Northampton); at Colonus Jo Servi art form practitioner, a poet, playwright (Nevada Conservatory Theatre); Elnathan / Benjamin / Dwayne & performer, graphic artist & designer, Treemonisha ( and Jo’s theater credits include: and founder of the Midnight Run—an Arts Centre); and The ( Coliseum); The Life (Southwark international, arts-filled, night-time, Beatification of Area Boy—world tour Playhouse); (U.K. & playful, urban, walking experience. He is (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Television European Tour); Sunny Afternoon a Complete Works poet alumni and a credits include: Moonfleet, Spooks, ( Theatre); City of Angels designer at White Space Creative Casualty, Chambers, and (); A Midsummer Agency. Across his work, Identity, The Bill. Film credits include: Justified, Bad Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park); Jersey Displacement & Destiny are reoccurring Day, Dead Room, Plato’s Breaking Point, Boys (); Before themes in which he also tries to mix the The Killing Zone and Samson and Delilah. The Dawn - Kate Bush ( old with the new: traditional African Apollo); The Enchanted Pig (New Victory storytelling with contemporary poetry, Kenneth Omole Theater, New York); The Human Comedy pencil with pixel, texture with vector Kwame / Fabrice / Brian (The Young Vic & Watford Palace); images. His poetry is published by Kenneth Omole trained Rose Bruford ; Jailhouse Rock; Flipped Eye, Akashic, Nine Arches & Drama School. His theater credits (all Theatre) Cinderella (Old several plays by Oberon. include: Assata Taught Me (Gate Vic Theatre) and Disney’s The Lion King Theatre); The Cane (The ), (Lyceum Theatre). Film & Television: Bijan Sheibani and This Language ( Fringe). Muppets: Most Wanted (Disney); Director Kenneth was also nominated for Best Saturday Live (Triffic Films) and The Bijan’s recent theater credits include Actor at the 2017 Stage Debut Awards. Royal Variety Performance (Granada). Dance Nation (Almeida); Circle Mirror

4 Transformation (Home, Manchester); The (Almeida); , Parliament Noise of Time, for Complicité; Black Brothers Size (Young Vic/Actors Touring Square, Our Town, Twelfth Night, A Watch, and Let The Right One In; for Company); Barber Shop Chronicles Streetcar Named Desire, Wit, The Skriker, National Theatre of . Gareth’s (National Theatre/Fuel/West Yorkshire There Has Possibly Been An Incident work includes over 20 productions at Playhouse). He has also directed (Royal Exchange); : the Royal National Theatre, over 20 at extensively at the National Theatre of Interactive Introverts, The Amazing Tour is the Royal Court and countless more, where his credits include Not on Fire (World Tours); Instructions for including the Opening Ceremony of The Kitchen, Our Class, Emil and the Correct Assembly, 2071 (Royal Court); the 2012 Olympic Games. Awards Detectives, and A Taste of Honey. Caroline, or Change ( Festival include two , two Drama Theatre); Circle Mirror Transformation Desk Awards and an IRNE award. As Recent credits include Nothing (Home MCR); Wonderland (Nottingham well as three Olivier Awards, an (Glyndebourne); and Tell Me The Truth Playhouse); Beginning (also Evening Standard Award, and two About Love (Streetwise Opera). He was Ambassadors Theatre); Cleansed Helpmann Awards. an associate director of the National (National Theatre); Committee (Donmar); Theatre from 2010-15, and artistic 4.48 Psychosis, Reisende auf einem Bein, Michael Henry director of Actors Touring Company Happy Days (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Music Director from 2007–10. Junkyard, (Headlong). Michael is a composer, vocalist, and www.jackknowles.co.uk musical director. MD work includes An Rae Smith Octoroon, The Amen Corner, Emperor and Designer Aline David Galilean, FELA!, and Death and the King’s Rae Smith’s recent designs in the UK Movement Director Horseman (National Theatre); They include Nightfall (The Bridge) Theater work includes: Dance Nation, Drink It in the Congo and Mr. Burns , and Macbeth (National The House of Bernarda Alba (Almeida); (Almeida); SYLVIA (Old Vic); The Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Macbeth, (RSC); Brothers Size and FEAST (Young Vic). Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse); , A Taste of Honey, Live backing vocals include George Girl from the North Country (Old Vic, Damned by Despair, Antigone, The Michael, Chaka Khan, and Pet Shop Noël Coward Theatre and The Public Kitchen, Greenland, Our Class (National Boys. Studio vocals include Diana Theater NY ); (National Theatre); The Brothers Size, Dutchman, Ross, Robbie Williams, and Billy Bragg. Theatre, and UK tour) Eurydice (with ACT), Elektra, (Young Compositions include Rocket Symphony The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (Theatre Vic); Nothing (Glyndebourne Opera / for 500 voices and fireworks and Stand Royal Haymarket); Stella ( Hall Den Jyske Opera); The Mighty Waltzer, for 16 voices at the BBC Proms 2006. and Holland Festival). Other designs 1984, Macbeth (Royal Exchange); The He has sung a cappella extensively include wonder.land, The Light Princess, Iphigenia Quartet, How to be Another with Flying Pickets and The Shout. (Tony and Olivier Awards) at Woman (Gate); The Tempest (National the National Theatre, Cav and Pag at Youth Theatre); First Love is the Stella Odunlami the Met Opera NY, and The Tempest for Revolution (Soho); Romeo and Juliet, A Associate Director Royal Ballet. Further info: Taste of Honey, Alice (Sheffield Crucible); Stella Odunlami is a theater-maker www.raesmith.co.uk. Upcoming work The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Of Mice and researcher. She most recently includes Inua Ellams’ The Little Prince. and Men (Birmingham Rep). presented the sound installation and performance piece : 1980 Jack Knowles Gareth Fry something (V&A). Work as a director Lighting Designer Sound Designer includes Made Visible (The Yard); Dies The Importance of Being Earnest Gareth’s U.S. work includes Harry Potter Irae (); Hidden (33% Festival (Vaudeville); , They Drink it in the and the Cursed Child; The Encounter at Ovalhouse); Preserves (Hen and Congo, Boy, Carmen Disruption, Game (with Pete Malkin), Shun-kin and The Chickens); and Black Cab Music (Lyric

5 Hammersmith). She was previously Salad Days (The Union Theatre, Bath Rough Crossings, , resident assistant director at the Gate, Theatre Royal); Screwed (Theatre 503); Paradise Lost (Headlong). where she worked on Joseph K, The One Day of the Year (Finborough). She Fatherland, and Electra. Other work as recently participated in the final for the Fiona Bardsley assistant director includes The Dutch Opera Design Award. Deputy Stage Manager Revenger’s Tragedy (Hoxton Hall); Fiona trained at LAMDA on the Stage Crocodile (); and Bad Sarah Cowan Management and Technical Theater Blood Blues and Come Dancing (Theatre Production Manager course. She then worked in the fringe Royal Stratford East). Sarah has production managed in and the Soho Poly Theatre. Fiona venues such as the National Theatre worked at the Royal Court as DSM on Leian John-Baptiste (UK), Manchester Royal Exchange, many plays including, Road, A Lie of the Associate Director Cymru, , Mind, and Ice Cream and Hot Chocolate. In the past Leian has made short films Opera , and York Theatre Fiona’s credits at the National Theatre and launched a website (House of Royal among others. She has worked as Deputy Stage Manager include: The Black) to showcase and celebrate in theater for almost 20 years with Shaugraun; ; Dealers Choice; Amy’s young Black British filmmakers. Earlier experience ranging from large-scale View; . World tours of Richard III; this year he worked as an Assistant shows to site-specific projects. One of ; ; ; Power; Director (to Oliver Award nominee her favorite pieces (aside from Barber ; ; Battle Royal; Bijan Sheibani) at the Young Vic, on Shop Chronicles, of course) was a ; Gagarin Way; The Talking the Brothers Size (written by the Oscar production called Before I Sleep with Cure; ; The Effect; Beyond winning writer of , Tarell Dreamthinkspeak. She is now going Caring; , and . Alvin McCraney). More recently he has international and, following touring the directed Waterfalls at Theatre Royal U.S. and with this show, will be Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng Stratford East & Stop & Search at heading to the Theatre Assistant Stage Manager Theatre 503.Leian plans to do more Company to Production Manage with Sylvia is a Rose Bruford Graduate in directing for stage and also get back them for a while. Stage Management. Her credits into directing for screen something he include: The 33% Festival (Creative hasn’t done much of since studying Julia Reid Youth Department at Oval House); Broadcast Media at Brunel University. Company Stage Manager 24hour plays (Old Vic: New Voices); Julia trained in Stage Management at NineRooms (Old Vic Tunnels); Catherine Morgan the Royal Central School of Speech & Monologue Slam; RichMix; Future Fest; Associate Designer Drama. Theatre credits include: Things Eclipse (NTC); Grandfathers (NTC); Half Catherine was Associate Designer on I Know To Be True (Frantic Assembly, UK Breed ( Tour, Soho Theatre); A St George and the Dragon (National Tour); Fatherland (MIF, Frantic Guide to Second Date Sex; Strong Arm Theatre) and Assistant Designer on The Assembly, Royal Exchange (Edinburgh Festival: Underbelly Venue); Goat (Theatre Royal, Haymarket). She Manchester); Twelfth Night, Cat on a Hot Jungle Book (Birmingham has worked for designers including Tin Roof, Scuttlers, Three Birds, Rats Tales, Rep/); Ada Ada Ada Stewart Laing, Giles Cadle, Leslie , Punk Rock and (Proximus Lounge, Brussels); Brainstorm Travers, Jamie Vartan, Soutra Gilmour, (Royal Exchange Manchester); (Temporary Space); Putting Words in Antony McDonald and Tom Cairns. Midsummer Nights Dream (Int tour, Your Mouth (Roundhouse); Take-Over Associate design credits include: The Propeller); The Late Middle Classes Season, Storylab (Tricycle Theatre); NYT Hairy Ape (Old Vic, Park Avenue (Donmar); (RSC Swan); In Playing Up Season (Arcola); Halfbreed Armory, New York); and Dido & Aeneas / the Night Garden (UK Tour); Been So (India Tour); Boys (Vaults Festival); and La Voix Humaine (Opera North). Long, A Prayer for my Daughter and the Nine Night (National Theatre: The Catherine’s recent design credits include: Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic); Dorfman).

6 Fuel, co-producer directed by , opening at the We do all we can to keep ticket prices Fuel produces an adventurous, playful Bristol Old Vic in September 2018. affordable and to reach a wide and significant program of work—live, audience, and use our public funding digital, and across art forms—for a National Theatre, co-producer to maintain artistic risk-taking, large and representative audience The National Theatre makes world- accessibility and diversity. across the UK and beyond. We class theater that is entertaining, collaborate with outstanding artists with challenging, and inspiring. And we West Yorkshire Playhouse, co-producer fresh perspectives and approaches who make it for everyone. Welcome to the of incredible seek to explore our place in the world, stories. There has been a Playhouse in expose our fears, understand our hopes We stage up to 30 productions at our for almost 50 years; from 1968 for the future, create experiences which home each year, ranging to 1990 as Leeds Playhouse and then change us and in turn empower us to from reimagined classics—such as with the opening of a brand new make change in the world around us. Greek tragedy and Shakespeare—to theatre on its current Quarry Hill site it modern masterpieces and new work by became West Yorkshire Playhouse. Fuel Director Kate McGrath and Inua contemporary writers and theatre- Ellams met in 2008, after Kate saw the makers. The work we make strives to be West Yorkshire Playhouse is a leading beginnings of what became Inua’s first as open, as diverse, as collaborative and UK producing theatre; a cultural hub, a play, The 14th Tale, at BAC. Fuel helped as national as possible. Much of that place where people gather to tell and Inua develop this debut and produced new work is researched and developed share stories and to engage in world it, premiering it at the Edinburgh at the New Work Department: we are class theatre. We make work which is Festival, winning a Fringe First, touring committed to nurturing innovative work pioneering and relevant, seeking out it in the UK and internationally and from new writers, directors, creative the best companies and artists to presenting it at the National Theatre. artists and performers. Equally, we are create inspirational theatre in the heart Since that first meeting, Fuel has committed to education, with a wide- of Yorkshire. From large scale worked closely with Inua, producing ranging learning program for all ages in spectacle, to intimate performance we Untitled, Knight Watch, The Long Song our Clore Learning Centre and in develop and make work for our stages, Goodbye, Black T-shirt Collection, The schools and communities across the UK. for found spaces, for touring, for Spalding Suite, and Barber Shop schools and community center. Our Chronicles since its inception. Fuel The National’s work is also seen on 2015-16 production of Chitty Chitty Bang previously toured Inua’s An Evening with tour throughout the UK and Bang played to over 500,000 people an Immigrant where with poems, stories, internationally, and in collaborations across the country—our production of and extracts from his plays, he tells and co-productions with regional Beryl played to 100 in a village hall in about his life through the lens of his theaters. Popular shows transfer to the Wickenby, Lincolnshire. We create work experience of immigration. West End and occasionally to to entertain and inspire. Broadway. Through National Theatre Upcoming Fuel projects include: Live, we broadcast live performances As dedicated collaborators, we work , adapted by David to cinemas around the world. regularly with other from across Greig and directed by Tom Morris, the UK, independent producers, and opening at the Bristol Old Vic in National Theatre: On Demand. In Schools some of the most distinctive, original September 2018. And The Half God of makes acclaimed, curriculum-linked voices in theatre today. We develop Rainfall by Inua Ellams at the Kiln productions free to stream on demand work with established practitioners and Theatre in April 2019. in every primary and secondary school find, nurture and support new voices in the country. Online, the NT offers a that ought to be heard. We cultivate Upcoming Fuel projects include: Touching rich variety of innovative digital new talent by providing creative space The Void, adapted by and content on every aspect of theatre. for new writers, emerging directors,

7 companies and individual theatre Sebastian Born, Tom Lyons, , Tunji Lucas, , Kobna makers to refine their practice. Ben Power, Emily McLaughlin, Nina Holdbrook-Smith, Seun Shote, Kurt Steiger, Wendy Spon, Douglas Ejikeme Egyiawan, Ivanno Jeremiah, Daniel Alongside our work for the stage we Nwokolo, Michael Ekewere, Ros Brooke- Francis, Calvin Demba, Sope Dirisu, are dedicated to providing creative Taylor, Nick Starr, Peter Nice, Nadine Daniel Poyser, Poetra Asantewa, Shade & engagement opportunities that excite Patel, Fusi Olateru, The British Council, Jo Kay Odunlami, Xavier de Sousa, Jamie and stimulate. We build, run and and Alison Elliot, Rambisayi Marufu, Billy Hadley and the team at The Cut Festival sustain projects which reach out to Wolf, Christina Elliot, Alice Massey, of Barbering, and the late David everyone from refugee communities, to Chesta Clarke, ShonisaniLethole, MacLennan and his team at A Play, a young people and students, to older Milisuthando Bongela, Mandal Pie and a Pint at Òran Mór, Catherine communities and people with learning Mazibuko, Dwain, Abel, Jay, Thabiso Morgan, Laura Hammond, Louise disabilities. At the Playhouse there is Mohare, Lebo Mashile, Tendai, Jessica Marchand-Paris, Julia Reid, Fiona always a way to get involved. Horn, Michale Onsando, Daniel, Aleya Bardsley, Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng, Peter Kassam, Njoki Ngumi, Maimouna Jallow, Atakpo, Lotte Hines, Tuwaine Barrett, Production credits Ian Arunga, Brian Munene, George Elliot Edusah, Alhaji Fofana, Bayo Globe built by Creative Metalwork. Gachara, Njeri Wagacha, Mugsas Blick, Gbadomsi, Solomon Israel, Anthony Model-maker Tom Paris. Thanks to Phiona Okumu, Cathy Adengo, Beverly Ofoegbu, Kenneth Omole, Jo Servi, Ashley Jackson, Professor of Imperial Namozo, Simon, Alex, Dre Jackson, Rachel Bowen, Laura Howells, Richard and Military History, Defence Studies Jimmy, Patricia Okelowange, Jessica Eustace and Sarah Cowan. Department, Faculty of Social Science Horn, Jude Atebe, Wallace Egbe, Fiona and Public Policy, King’s College London, Hecksher, Wana Udobang, Tolu This event was made possible by Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College Oxford. Ogunlesi,, Adreonke support from the British Council. The Thanks to: Krystle Lai, Kate McGrath, Adebanjo, Kenneth Uphopho, Ore Disu, British Council is the UK’s international Bijan Sheibani, Stella Odunlami, Fisayo Jude Atebe, Tj Owusu, Mary Owusu- organisation for cultural relations and Akinade, Hammed Animashaun, Peter Bempah, Seth EboArthur, Nii Ayikwei educational opportunities. We create Bankolé, Maynard Eziashi, Simon Parkes, Fiifi Ayikwei Parkes, Omara friendly knowledge and understanding Manyonda, Patrice Naiambana, , Ayikwei Parkes, Marianne San Miguel, between the people of the UK and Kwami Odoom, Sule Rimi, , Billie McTernan, Belinda Boakye, Belinda other countries. We do this by making David Webber, Anthony Welsh, Rae Zhawi, Bridget, Anna & Joseph a positive contribution to the UK and Smith, Jack Knowles, Aline David, Gareth Minamore, Leeto Thale, , the countries we work with—changing Fry, Michael Henry, Kev McCurdy, Peter Mensah Bediako, Daniel Ward, Jo Servi, lives by creating opportunities, building Atakpo, Charmian Hoare, Hazel Holder, Syrus Lowe, Isaac, Ekow Quartey, connections and engendering trust.

Upcoming Events

More jazzy nights in the Bing Studio

Tickets and information: Mouthpiece Ghost Rings live.stanford.edu Quote Unquote Collective in Half Straddle association with Why Not Theatre Feb 14–16 • 8∶00PM Jan 31–Feb 2 • 8∶00PM Bing Studio Bing Studio